[pypy-dev] Question on the future of RPython

[Saravanan Shanmugham]

awesome.

The point I was making is that RPython(a static subset of Python) will be faster 
than Dynamic Python code on a JIT or compiled to machine code.

Sarvi


----- Original Message ----
From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com>
To: Saravanan Shanmugham <sarvi at yahoo.com>
Cc: Douglas McNeil <mcneil at hku.hk>; "pypy-dev at codespeak.net" 
<pypy-dev at codespeak.net>
Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 1:28:14 AM
Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] Question on the future of RPython

Hi,

2010/9/2 Saravanan Shanmugham <sarvi at yahoo.com>:
> We have Pickle and cPickle for performance. The Pickle could have simply been
> rewritten in RPython and probably compiled and we don't need  different 
versons
> :-))

The PyPy way is much simpler:
there is only the original pickle.py, written in plain full Python,
and it's as fast as a C or RPython implementation.

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc